Quotes About Fusion

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Não há a menor distinção entre deuses e homens: as duas coisas se misturam sem cerimônia.

If it feels good, feels different, and falls in the middle of both of our wildly different tastes, then we know it's a Sofi Tukker song.

I don't sing white; I don't sing black - I sing Bronx. When I sing 'Ruby Baby,' I'm rolling like Jimmy Reed. I wanted to communicate like Hank Williams and groove like Jimmy Reed.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Prince, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament all had albums that sound different. I wanted to show, as a hip-hop producer, I'm one of those that can do anything, because I was raised on so much music aside from rap and hip-hop.

We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.

A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

I've trained in wing chung, jeet kune do, I've indulged in many arts that people would not have thought I have trained in and incorporated.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

The DNA of Rojak is found in its textures.

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

'GLOW' is the first time I feel like I've been able to have a theatrical experience on the small screen: to really be able to marry the two. And I love it.

Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to TV theme music - one of my favorites is 'M*A*S*H.' I'll just play along with anything on the TV.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.